Re: IO delay, port 0x80, and BIOS POST codes

[John Heil]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, David Golden wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:12:42 +0000
> From: David Golden <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: IO delay, port 0x80, and BIOS POST codes
>
> On Thursday 14 March 2002 22:55, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > We've got one. Its 0x80. It works everywhere with only marginal non
> > problematic side effects
>
> I've always liked POST cards.  They could hypothetically be useful
> for kernel development,too  - who hasn't wanted a low-level
> single-asm-instruction status output from a running system at one time or
> another , independent of any other output mechanisms?
>
> OK it's a single byte, but it's still nice...  That's two whole hex digits!
> DE... AD...  BE... EF... !

Any number of consecutive bits and a target I/O address can be very
useful.

I do it regularly for embedded kernel hacking... harmless I/O, picked up
by your logic analyzer.

Only drawback is it adds pathlength which can impact realtime if you get
excessive.

Johnh

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